I am an economist and a post-doc at Yale School of the Environment. My research focuses on the microeconomics of energy and climate innovation: Who adopts new technologies and why? How can the government direct—and speed up—technical change? How do manufacturers and innovators respond to both policy and politics? I use a combination of economic modeling and causal inference to investigate these questions.
Prior to Yale, I was a research fellow at the Environmental Protection Agency where I worked on cars, including light and medium-duty vehicle rule making, and environmental justice questions. I earned my Ph.D. in Agricultural, Food, and Resource Economics at Michigan State University. I also hold degrees from The University of Chicago and Carnegie Mellon University. Before graduate school, I ran a small biofuel company1 Details. in Braddock, Pennsylvania.2 Now famously the home of Senator John Fetterman who was mayor at the time.
I am on the job market. Here is my research statment, and my job market paper.
⋅ ASSA 2024 Annual Meeting - Jan. 7 @ 8am
⋅ Yale Seminar in Environmental and Natural Resource Economics - Nov. 1
â‹… NBER Economics of Energy Use in Transportation [slides]
How is Rooftop Solar Capitalized in Home Prices? With Kenneth Gillingham.
R&R at Regional Science and Urban Economics.
[Working paper]3 Key figure. Full solar capitalization assumes a high discount rate.
Attribute Production and Technical Change in Automobiles. 2023.
With Soren Anderson and Gloria Helfand. [NBER]4 Key figure. Estimated technical change is substantially fuel-economy biased (left). Consumer preferences for size, acceleration, and fuel economy have all increaed (right).
Political Risk Reduces Solar Adoption in Renewable Portfolio Standards. 2022.5 Dissertation chapter. [Slides]
Co-adoption of Rooftop Solar and Electric Vehicles. With Bryan Bollinger and Kenneth Gillingham.6 DOE grant funded.
Green vs Grid-independence Messaging: Evidence from a Residential Battery Storage Field Experiment. With Bryan Bollinger and Kenneth Gillingham.7 Ibid.
Against the Wind? Hedonic Estimation Under Attribute Uncertainty.